Pro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis : Creating Advanced Algorithms with C# and .NET

✍ Scribed by Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 571
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Utilize this comprehensive, yet practical, overview of modern cryptography and cryptanalysis to improve performance. Learn by example with source code in C# and .NET, and come away with an understanding of public key encryption systems and challenging cryptography mechanisms such as lattice-based cryptography.

Modern cryptography is the lifeboat of a secure infrastructure. From global economies and governments, to meeting everyday consumer needs, cryptography is ubiquitous, and used in search, design, data, artificial intelligence, and other fields of information technology and communications. Its complexity can lead to misconfiguration, misuse, and misconceptions. For developers who are involved in designing and implementing cryptographic operations in their applications, understanding the implications of the algorithms, modes, and other parameters is vital.

Pro Cryptography and Cryptanalysis is for the reader who has a professional need or personal interest in developing cryptography algorithms and security schemes using C# and .NET. You will learn how to implement advanced cryptographic algorithms (such as Elliptic Curve Cryptography Algorithms, Lattice-based Cryptography, Searchable Encryption, Homomorphic Encryption), and come away with a solid understanding of the internal cryptographic mechanisms, and common ways in which the algorithms are correctly implemented in real practice. With the new era of quantum computing, this book serves as a stepping stone to quantum cryptography, finding useful connections between current cryptographic concepts and quantum related topics.

What You Will Learn

• Know when to enlist cryptography, and how it is often misunderstood and misused
• Explore modern cryptography algorithms, practices, and properties
• Design and implement usable, advanced cryptographic methods and mechanisms
• Understand how new features in C# and .NET impact the future of cryptographic algorithms
• Use the cryptographic model, services, and System.Security.Cryptography namespace in .NET
• Modernize your cryptanalyst mindset by exploiting the performance of C# and .NET with its weak cryptographic algorithms
• Practice the basics of public key cryptography, including ECDSA signatures
• Discover how most algorithms can be broken

Who This Book Is For

Information security experts, cryptologists, software engineers, developers, data scientists, and academia who have experience with C#, .NET, as well as IDEs such as Visual Studio, VS Code, or Mono. Because this book is for an intermediate to advanced audience, readers should also possess an understanding of cryptography (symmetric and asymmetric) concepts.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxx
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Cryptography Fundamentals (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 3-47
Mathematical Background and Its Applicability in Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 49-94
Large Integer Arithmetic (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 95-108
Floating-Point Arithmetic (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 109-132
What’s New in C# 8.0 (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 133-163
Secure Coding Guidelines (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 165-180
.NET Cryptography Services (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 181-226
Overview of the Security.Cryptography Namespace (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 227-241
Cryptography Libraries in C# and .NET (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 243-266
Front Matter ....Pages 267-267
Elliptic-Curve Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 269-289
Lattice-Based Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 291-300
Searchable Encryption (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 301-321
Homomorphic Encryption (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 323-342
Ring-Learning with Errors Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 343-357
Chaos-Based Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 359-378
Big Data Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 379-400
Cloud Computing Cryptography (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 401-432
Front Matter ....Pages 433-433
Getting Started with Cryptanalysis (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 435-445
Cryptanalysis Attacks and Techniques (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 447-456
Linear and Differential Cryptanalysis (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 457-481
Integral Cryptanalysis (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 483-499
Attacks (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 501-516
Text Characterization (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 517-536
Implementation and Practical Approach of Cryptanalysis Methods (Marius Iulian Mihailescu, Stefania Loredana Nita)....Pages 537-546
Back Matter ....Pages 547-556

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET